Ottawa Winter Open: $30 discounted registrants

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi chess fans, I am pleased to announce that registrations are off to a nice start (at least 38) for the 2011 Ottawa Winter Open, scheduled for January 14th-16th. Note that I have been a bit sick at home the last couple of days, and there might be more registrations sitting in the mailbox at the post office.

Some travelling players have concerns about travelling in case of inclement weather, but remember that even earlier in the day before the first round, you can simply defer your registration to a future Ottawa weekender (we have 5 events per year)! If that flexibility appeals to you, then please feel free to take advantage of the $30 triple-early discount for paying in December! Since the rest of this month can be a rather busy time of the year, I am not totally sure at this time just how many Thursday evenings I can make it out to the RA club to take payments in person. As of the writing of this post, I expect to be there tomorrow evening from 715pm to 8pm, but for all of the rest of this month, if you want to be sure of getting the $30 discount, please also feel free to mail in your registration and payment, as per the instructions at the end of the event details webpage : http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html

Is there someone in your life who keeps asking what they can get you for Christmas? How about registration to the Ottawa Winter Open?! And if it would help, send me their email address, and I can help them register you! (of course, other holiday names are also available! ;)

Yours in chess,

Aris Marghetis, FIDE Arbiter
Organizer/TD, EOCA President
arismarghetis at rogers dot com
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html

Please note that we are looking for up to 5 floater players :
- floater players help the TD guarantee no “forced byes”
- floater players are paired and rated like all the players
- floater players play for free, but under some conditions :
----- they play in 0 to 5 rounds, depending on byes by all the players
----- they can be phoned/texted in the hour before every single round
----- they have a current CFC membership by the time of first pairings
If you are interested in being a floater player for this event, please apply by email

--------- ongoing registration list ---------

CFC# rating name: title last, first

Masters Section
146462 2725 GM Sambuev, Bator
106245 2451 IM O'Donnell, Tom
135223 2367 Kraiouchkine, Nikita (CFC membership)
134989 2354 Qin, Joey
103715 2327 Pacey, Kevin
141393 2211 Marinkovic, Mate

U2200 Section
103521 2194 Filipovich, David
111166 2181 Collins, Christian
103754 2119 Doubleday, William
106856 2106 Palsson, Halldor
131936 2067 Desjardins, Michel
142032 2046 Forget, David

U2000 Section
139655 1999 Sadeghi, Saeid
101203 1986 Arseneau, Peter (floater)
137927 1932 Kalra, Agastya
107565 1909 Hubley, Roger
101895 1902 Danilov, Alex
100337 1877 Laurin, Marcel
104270 1813 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)

U1800 Section
110972 1799 Ritchie, Gordon (bye 3)
147276 1758 Zhang, Kevin (CFC membership)
112353 1755 Tomalty, Alan
120860 1698 Krolczyk, Jacob
105262 1676 Lidstone, Phil (CFC membership)
148746 1651 Farah, Liiban
151429 1619 Yang, Ryan
129952 1614 MacNevin, Dave

U1600 Section
144311 1520 Sharma, Pranav
135113 1462 Eyre, Keven (bye 1)
147277 1435 Zhang, David (CFC membership)
148924 1419 Zhang, Jeff (CFC membership)
146765 1415 Lukezich, John
146597 1403 Luo, Fangyi
150390 1335 Carroll, Billy (bye 1)
146598 1301 Luo, Tony
151370 1082 Ju, Larry
151396 1011 Ju, Terry
148747 994 Amirshadova, Victoria

P.S. All applicable ratings will be rechecked before first pairings at 7pm.

--------- original event announcement ---------

The Eastern Ontario Chess Association (EOCA) organizes the EOCA Grand Prix, a series of weekend tournaments over the 2010-2011 chess season.

The next EOCA event in Ottawa is the Ottawa Winter Open, set for January 14th-16th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and discount options.

We are planning 5 sections (rated CFC, upper sections also rated FIDE), and prizes for every 200 rating points (last 3 Ottawa events averaged >$2700!)

For more details on this event, and a great webpage for all of the events in the 2010-2011 EOCA Grand Prix, please consider bookmarking this weblink :
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html

[Aris Marghetis]

cannot make it to the RA club tonight

Hi there, sorry for the late notice, but I have been infected by my son with some darn flu bug, and have decided to not attend the RA club tonight. If you were planning on meeting me there to pay for the Ottawa Winter Open, please consider mailing in your payment as per the instructions at the end of the event details webpage included at the bottom below. I do not know yet whether I can attend the RA club next Thursday, the 30th, but as of now, given we have family visiting, I would assume that I cannot make that date either. However, anything mailed with a postmark before January 1st gets the $30 discount! :)

To everyone at the RA club, and all the players who I see either in Ottawa or elsewhere across our great country (or in faraway places like Greece for the WYCC! ;), and to all other ChessTalk readers: Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! :)

http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html